Bustle.



Patented July 8, |902. H. H. TAYLOR.

B U S T L E.

(Apphcation led Mar. l0A 1902i (No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY II. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT;

BUSTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 704,146, dated July s,1902.

Application iiled March l0, 1902. Serial No. 97,560. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may cancern.-

Be it known that LHENEY H. TAYLoE,a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairield'and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBustles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bustles,but particularly relates to that class of such devices composed of abulging front portion and a closed back portion, and has for its objectto provide a bustle which will adapt itself to the person of the wearervery readily and which will not cause any discomfort.

With these ends in View my invention consists in certain details ofconstruction, such as will be hereinafter fully described and thenspecifically be designated by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application,Figure lis a front elevation of my improved bustle; Fig. 2, a rearelevation thereof; Fig. 3, a section at the line a; no of Fig. 1, andFig. 4 is a view showing a slight modification of my invention.

Similar numbers of `reference denote like parts in the several iiguresof the drawings.

Heretoforebustles have been made with a bulging front, obtained from theproper manipulations of suitably-shaped woven-wire blanks and a backinghas been attached to the bulging form, at the eXtreme periphery thereof,so as to completely close the rear of the bustle, this form of bustlebeing shown and described in Letters Patent No. 626,207', issued May 30,1899, to Harry II. Keil. I have ascertained that a bustle of this sortwillnot iit the person of the wearer snugly and comfortably, owing tothe fact that the closed back, extending, as it does, clear to theperiphery of the bustle, prevents the latter from adapting itselfreadily to the waist-line and to the shape of the wearer.

The object of my present invention is to obviate this difficulty, and myimprovement will be clearly understood from the following description.

l is the bulging form made from woven-wire fabric.

2 is a binding-tape sewed to the upper edge of the bulging form, whichis adapted to embrace the waist of the wearer.

3 is a binding-tape sewed to the lower edge of the bulging form, and 4represents strings or tapes attached to the corners of the bustle,whereby the latter may be secured to the person of the wearer.

5 is a backing made of suitable material, such as muslin, similar inshape to the shape of the bulging form,bnt smaller in dimensions, whichbacking is sewed to the inside of the bulging form at a distance fromthe binding-tapes 2 3. This backing is stretched tightly, so that thereis considerable space between it and the bulging form, the object ofthis construction being to preserve the shape of the bustle and toprevent the same from collapsing too readily.

It will thus be clear that I have provideda bustle similar to the bustledescribed in the Letters Patent aforesaid, except that there is aportion of the woven-wire fabric which separates the perimeter of thebacking from the binding-tapes around the perimeter of the bulging form,and this renders the upperand lower edges of the bustle flexible, sothat these edges will readily yield and conform to the shape of thewearer, thereby greatly contributing toward personal comfort and abetter tit and shape.

In the event that a bustle is to be made up of two sections 6 '7 ofbulging woven-wire forms, such as are illustrated in the modification atFig. 4, I would unite these sections at the upper or waist-line edges bysewing thereto a continuous tape 8, while the lower and inner abuttingedges of these sections would be bound by tapes 9 l0, and the closedbackings il l2, which appear in dotted lines, will be applied to theinside of the forms 6 7 in the manner hereinbefore described.

It will thus be readily understood that my improvement can be readilyapplied in the manufacture of sectional bustles.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A bustle comprising a woven-wire bulg- IOO ing form having its edgesbound with tape, l said tape whereby the edges of the buiging and aclosed backing seWed to the` inside of i form are rendered exible,substantially as said form at a distance from said tape, subset forth.

stantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature 5 2.A bustle comprising a Woven-wire buigin presence of tWo Witnesses.

ing form having its edges bound with tape, HENRY H TAYLOR and acomparatively small closed backing stretched tightly and sewed to theinside of Witnesses:

said form, the perimeter of said backing F. W. SMITH, Jr., xo throughoutits extent being separated from M. T. LONGDEN.

